Front cover, The Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity’s Directory for the year 1844

This week finds available for your reading and research enjoyment a number of new materials. We present the next in the series of the ongoing digitization of the official Catholic Directories, this week’s from 1844. As well, 5 issues of an import German language reprint library – Die Deutsche Library – are newly online and represent the vibrant German language popular publishing press in the United States prior to the American entry in the Great War in 1917.

American Catholic Historical Society

Historic Papers

Letter, To: “Dear Siss” (Mary O’Reilly) From: Robert, July 10, 1869

Robert M. O’Reilly (10 items added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:414334]

Catholica

The Official Catholic Directory

The Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity’s Directory for the year 1844
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:419876]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

My pretty maid, or, Liane Lester / by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

My pretty maid, or, Liane Lester / by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:418231]

Serapis / von George Ebers – Die Deutsche Library, v. 9, no. 169, January 19, 1885

Die Deutsche Library (volume covers plus 5 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:409564]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:409573]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:409631]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:409665]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:409695]
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:409793]